i mean. as the u.s. reels from killer superstorm sandy some say obama and drawn the pretending that disaster relief campaigns have nothing to do with the race for the presidency. as u.k. and u.s. intelligence keeps this one go global global terrorism flying i will report from both plentiful in the form of the book to apply. bahrain's rulers beyond all public gathering say they need to restore order stepping up efforts to silence on its of its afternoon to nearly three years of.

international news live from moscow this is also he was me hello and welcome to the program obama and romney are being accused by some of using superstorm sandy recovery efforts as a campaign booster but as country had refrained from attacking each other directly during the calamity but not everyone is convinced that hasn't been happening under a shroud as this account from reports this was the you tube or surprised. i think there's. a hurricane sandy crashing on shore i've never seen anything like this i'm at a loss for words to describe what the storm could do but there is no loss for words on the campaign trail and on the eastern coast of our nation a lot of people are enduring some very difficult times the storm that wreaked havoc on america's east coast is wreaking confusion in the last critical days of a tight race for president so how do you run for office about seeming insensitive to a national tragedy the candidates are certainly doing all they can to look like they

aren't trying to score political points but their actions tell a different story president barack obama canceled his election rallies and returned to washington to focus on the storm the election will. take care of itself next week leaving vice president biden to campaign on his behalf. one of the perks of running for president while occupying the white house is being able to make high profile visits like this one america's whether we are standing behind you and we're going to do everything we can to help you get back on your feet it means coming across as a president on the job which certainly helps when it's a job you're reapplying for the president been in close contact with family. and all the agencies of course obama is the president was his advisor say means he needs to focus on the crisis at hand but in terms of how it affects the election i don't think anybody really knows obviously we want unfettered access to the polls but it's a choice that doesn't sit well with some political opponents you'll notice he's

canceling his trips over the hurricane he did not cancel his trips over benghazi. and then those republican presidential contender mitt romney so far he stopped sending fund raising e-mails in effect states used his campaign bus for relief efforts and put up a blog with the weather related advice he's also scrap schedule campaign events only it seems there are some fine print involved this may look like romney's campaigning in ohio a key swing state but his advisors say that's not the case the so-called victory rally was canceled out of sensitivity. instead of the campaign insists this is a hurricane relief a vent canned goods came hand in hand with anti obama t. shirts there was music and theme songs and those attending the supposedly nonpartisan event were treated to a video about romney getting america stronger that's what american president has to do. asked by

a reporter whether this blurred the line between storm relief and politics romney's top strategist replied i agree i don't know how it happened people over politics or politics over people it certainly does. to tell now we may be impossible to completely stop campaigning in the middle of a closely contested race but then why make the pretense of doing so it seems that both candidates could use a little bit of this age old advice say what you mean mean what you say and do what you say you'll do. r t moscow. superstorm sandy which has left at least forty five dead also spawns and told me three nuclear power plants were forced to go through line while a state of alert was declared at the full senate say. the super storm known as sandy has left millions of people and businesses along the east coast without power but the greatest danger the hurricane has posed may revolve around america's nuclear power plants at least three nuclear reactors have been shut down and the nation's oldest facility in new jersey is on rare alert exelon corp's forty three

year old oyster creek plant was put on alert after water levels at the plant rose more than six and a half feet above normal potentially affecting the water intake structure that pumps only water through the plant and the concern is that if the cool water is not maintained he used the radium rods in the pool could cause the water to boil experts say in an extreme scenario the rods could overheat risking the eventual release of radiation the concerns over the status of oyster creek has caused some to draw parallels to the fears surrounding last year's fukushima disaster in japan then helicopters and fire hoses were listed to ensure the pools remain filled with fresh water according to the nuclear regulatory commission the general electric designed nuclear reactors involved in the fukushima emergency are very similar to twenty three of the g designed reactors in the u.s. as of tuesday afternoon the u.s.

federal emergency management agency says there is no imminent threat of radiation releases from oyster creek reporting from new york marina port r.t. . i need to ax that got the sense as they possibly of sunday should be a wake up call for america's atomic in this tree the water level was somewhere around two meters perhaps a little higher because the gauge that the government uses to measure it actually broke in the storm surge because pump is critical to cool the water when it's in the nuclear reactor but in america when we move the fuel into the spent fuel pool we have no way of cooling it the real problem is that the box that the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot this steam goes up and the equipment in that box safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity i don't believe we'll have a. disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory

commission that it can happen here we could have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and be having the same conversation two days from now. this day without dates on the automatic system sunday and the race for the white house know what the mainstream is missing on dot com as well and next monday on the evil divided will vote counts and not a live round of debates between doubt terrace at said party presidential candidate . governor romney are we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and they do believe that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder and who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things never you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on

r.g.p. . over the years the global war on terrorism has proved a successful running call for u.s. and u.k. led military campaigns across the globe however as all she's pointed boycott reports the greater cause sometimes goes hand in hand with bertold top tax. somali born mahdi hashi had grown up in the u.k. from the age of five he was a british citizen until this summer when the twenty three year old went missing and his family found out that the home office had stripped him of his passport for allegedly being involved in islamic extremism his parents are distraught they say that maddie is an innocent victim of a british intelligence plot or because he refused to work for m i five all i can see is that the he's a muslim and believe and he's a practicing muslim but being a muslim is not being an islamist. that's what that's all why he's being victimized

this is the quiet north london community center where mehdi hashi what's back in two thousand and nine it was then that he and four of his muslim colleagues say that they were approached and harassed separately by security agents it's claimed that m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaigners raising awareness for maddie's plight said that the constant threats made by british intelligence made life so unbearable that he left the u.k. they were trying to offer him a job saying that you know effectively you're an extremist we know you're the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these will become tactics that were being used because somali origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particularly the security agencies marty had been living in somalia for the past two years taking

care of his grandmother and raising a son of his own but several months ago he disappeared leaving his family in despair my son is missing this summer this summer but i don't know if you know if you like your garden hose here. we are very. family the only information the hashi family have now comes from a man who contacted them to say that he'd been in prison with maddie in djibouti and he told us that he had been fingerprinted and d.n.a. has been taken from him and then. contacted they found out that his approach is in the conduct of the british consul and the british consul see that we have a good movie go on this decision probably and then the americans took him to somewhere we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at camp in djibouti and a tourist us anti terrorist base where he may be the victim of an american

rendition program in which suspects are on lawfully taken to third party states to be illegally detained and tortured the hashi family want on says to simple questions like what the allegations are against maddie where he is located and whether he's even alive but when it comes to matters of intelligence they're faced with a wall of silence lawyers acting on behalf of the hashi family have received just this response from the government it has been the policy of successive governments neither to confirm or deny speculation allegations or assertions in respect of intelligence matters this policy is maintained and accordingly the secretary of state can neither confirm nor deny the allegations made on behalf of your client these cases a classic case where profiling and you know kind of almost ludicrous policies with

. this war on terror a result in an innocent individual hopeless young man i think to be having to live for and campaigners say that by stripping maddie hashi of his passport the british government has effectively washed their hands of his case leaving his family to continue the search for. about that now stateless son. r t london. and then a couple of minutes we'll bring you more on british affairs scored high flyer is u.k. politicians charge taxpayers for their trips to exotic destinations. that's later but now bahrain is facing censure after the country's authorities bond all ronnie's and public gatherings amnesty international has called on the country to live the restrictions saying they violated their right to freedom of expression authorities in bahrain say they needed to restore stability around a city people have been killed in the country's south clashes began nearly two

years about the sheer majority of demanding war rights and jobs and education from their sunni rulers the country is under fire from human rights groups for using of tear gas and rubber bullets to dispose program form compay that thousands of protestors have been imprisoned including prominent human rights defender in the job serving time for tweeting and participating in illegal gatherings bahraini opposition. says the government is fuelling the crisis it claims is trying to prevent this is a good time for you look for. that. nothing in particular spoke institutions these are decisions taken by them to be judged and when they are talking about maintaining the peace and stability of. more than a hundred. and the last the biggest for eighteen months. they are political and people demand deadlines to block this is

the spike. but of the government being bought out that it just looked at a team exploited it is having to ship itself. is that they are just a few doing the lot understood in bahrain because what they. going to do with as they would see mike what they did and how late they were last week they will see each ball and was told by defending people from buying health science of their homes this is not gonna rain and this immediate impact on this is still on the make things last if somebody from the earth that is very tonight's profitable to go on to put together though no fear of it grew out of that. any condition we needed more from and that their community and this will remain about any of that with the true that it will all negotiations are there going into this if you are disillusioned they are and if you can get more of this is the question and. solving

it. a lot in america is a place that's certainly not a stranger to public outcry and turmoil and next hour we'll talk to the president of nicaragua who shed some light on what he thinks is behind that he will. not in america will never manage to make those a thing of the past and i'm afraid this might never happen i believe there will be any missile threat of those who are as long as the conservative forces in the united states not interested in any development aimed at upsetting the current global myra these forces are going to local groups in all countries even work over to activities we remain in. the drive for global domination and believe that the world is supposed to bend the knee to them they still don't realize that we no longer live in an era of headroom and so there will remain latent i mean it's for the time being.

now look at some international stories and bring for you this hour a syrian finding targets inside damascus near an opposition held area where rebel fighters clashed with the regime troops this comes as a prominent general is shot by rebels in the syrian capital that follows the killing of the country's defense minister and president assad's brother in law in july. more than thirty five thousand people have been killed a serious conflict began in march twenty. israel says a strike on iran is still highly highly possible despite iran stepping away from its alleged pursuit of atomic weapons the tourist state has announced that iran has delayed its nuclear program the claim comes in contrast to prime minister netanyahu speech last month where he stated that iran was on the brink of creating an atomic bomb these rights in israel have the. republic of seeking nuclear weapons which iran strongly denied. greece's latest assessing and

a half billion euros terus the package has stalled in parliament until next week that as the country's coalition government fails to new kinds demanded by international creditors without the austerity package greece will not qualify for the next target of bailout cash vital for its feeble the current prime minister antonio samaranch have trust that the lawmakers have already exhausted all possible time limits to agreeing on the package however international public policy analyst lukas journalist says anything planned costs will only whites and they cannot get situational rates. it looks pretty grim it looks pretty black out here in athens so we're really talking about. new trucks. for me labor laws general moving into what could be call of flexible table think plan we heard supposedly supposed to spur people within the greek economy but on

the other hand we've already seen the negative consequences of such a policy with unemployment reaching almost twenty five percent within the general population i do feel you did the government will succeed in the new cuts i have to mention that could huge and problems will of course appear when voting in favor of new thresh tax hikes as well as harry guts this is something that has to be expected but i do think that at the end of the day this this new deal will pass and the final disbursement of that trend will be completed successfully. in times when many across britain are tightening their belts there are still politicians ready to boost their frequent flyer miles by going on foreign visits at taxpayers' expense the cost of overseas fact finding missions almost doubled last year outraging people who have to make every penny count. has a story real china miami we might all dream of jetting off to some exotic

destination but unfortunately in the middle of a double dip recession with thirty measures biting we're being kept grounded. for some lucky and peace even just sing off some of those far flung nations of fact finding missions they're costing a huge amount of taxpayer money one trip coming in at a whopping seventy two thousand pound that was nine m.p.'s from the treasury select committee he went on a trip to singapore and china four and you really couldn't make this up global imbalances well that's certainly raising a huge amount of questions ok usually yes some foreign travel is going to be necessary but looking at the amount. of spend something has clearly gone wrong when you have a coach trip costing eight to ten thousand pounds per member of parliament trip that's probably over a thousand pounds

a day for the trip that kind of money would buy a normal family several holidays back in two thousand and ten the speaker for the house of commons called for a crack down of those types of spending since the coalition have come into power select committee should be no more than one hundred foreign trips the course is doubled from eight hundred thousand pounds last year up from four hundred seventy five thousand pounds the year before she said our tax pay is pounds. prices soaring obviously that's raising a huge amount of anger amongst people who are struggling in severe. economic times we'd all love to get off into the sunset to help us deal with the economic crisis those excessive expenditures are going to leave many m.p.'s looking like they simply got their heads in the clouds so r.t. london. right now is where you find bombs and barricades planes out

especially in southeast turkey was turned into a battlefield have got the details and pictures for you there. also raising the past saudi arabia announces it or bulldoze hector's of islam's history including prophet muhammad to build the world's biggest loss the. shock waves from foreign military intervention on just felt in the country undergoing the changes that can be felt thousands of kilometers away in the west african country of mali of a spill from a war in libya has resulted in the stylish month of a jihad to base the size of texas that's the subject of today's cost talk coming up at seven thirty am. from an african perspective from a regional perspective from a group are saying we need help we can't resolve this problem on our own the international community clearly seems to have said well fair enough we can help you we recognize your concern but we can only help you through we are not prepared the

west is not prepared to put boots on the ground for example what we saw in libya they're not prepared to use nato and of course if they have not yet and yet not yet not yet the worst but of course this problem simply because they actually went and got rid of gadhafi and of course we know that half of the people who are fighting on the ground in. the country at the moment are troops that have come back from former from that part of the world. for business and cases they're waiting for. anti. are concerned it has meant the longest what the race of shandong the four walls trade since eighteen cases i know is unbelievable it really is over a century yulia and also you talk about the costs there's anything between fifteen billion and twenty billion being predicted as to how much it's going to cost the economy but having said that the stock markets will resume trading two days

everything is going to be back to normal and we did have some news events coming out from the u.s. yesterday even though stocks were closed it was home price sales and they actually increased i'm right now that's helping out the asian markets which are actually trimming a monthly loss right now so we've also got encouraging corporate results as well for the likes of cameron make the camera and find out she's doing rather well to the industrial commercial bank of china the world's largest bank by market value it's actually gaining around two cents financials was doing well as well in hong kong two hey just b.c. is up to as well let's get on to some choruses see what's happening there is a big day for the euro dollar because we've got an e.u. finance meeting it's actually a crisis conference call taking place today and it's going to be talking about the situation in greece will they get the next tranche of money that's the main topic on the agenda as with the russian move it will commence. trading in less than an

hour and she now in just over half an hour on the same can be said for the xs this is how they closed up the session was quiet and that's because of hurricane sandy bucking the trend though we did have a gate up and that was the major rule snifter the company managed to borrow over two billion dollars from its subsidies to cover some of the costs of t. and kate be paid i was got oil on the screen just so also want to mention the fact that the prices are managing to just about trim the biggest monthly decline since my and gasoline rose up it's really. refineries started resuming operations off to the superstore. sounds right for us. moving on russian email to social networking group root geared up for global expansion on foreign markets it will concentrate on online gamers under the name of my dot com

the company claims its services are enjoyed by over ninety percent of russian internet users and hopes for success of brawls meanwhile they say any foreign achieve it will be tough and high competition from global fire is now on the way next here on out to go to special report on the way for years all to do with their brides chin koga stars stay with us for that one. what i can't attack you. just killed is wedding draws to a close serene of the bride be interpreter and search to feel good by. showing to see them for over a week after the ceremony the bride to be taken to her new husband's house and kept in a room for seven days the young wife will have to spend all that sign with her husband so she can get to know him she's never even kissed him and braced him or held his hand before. what's more nor one of the guests can be certain that the groom has

ever even proposed as arena or if he simply kidnapped. veneer a customer was also a bride once over there was no white dress or limousine at her wedding veneer or lived with her husband for only a week then she ran away to hang herself. everyone was trying to persuade her that living together would be ok and this boy was also trying hard trying to talk rehearing into this marriage but says she wanted to give it a try however it didn't work. the

story shocked veneer as fellow students at the state university in a circle. as mirror had been kidnapped not from the los countryside or even a dark alley way but on her way home from school in broad daylight a car stopped on the university campus three strangers drawn tales grabbed an era and took her to a nearby village. one of the kidnappers and said no you will be my wife and as i knew she called me every day after she'd been kidnapped and that even though she was a strong girl she was crying all the time she kept on books saying that she just didn't like that there. i told her to go away and to tell her sister as everything but she was scared she thought they would tell her to stay there. and that's why she didn't tell anyone a word. on

the bus that she was a monitor of the group i would know seemed as such a strong person could do this kind of thing to herself it's a thirty. minute there she wanted to be famous. than that and she could have been. if she was still alive. the nearest relatives are preparing borsak frybread traditionally made for weddings and funeral ceremonies. every the neighbors get together they reminisce about vanilla but they believe that you can't escape from fate. because of to have this kind of mentality once again gets married she has to live as a man no matter what. even if you. live as tragic story could have been written off as

a unique case were it not for the fact that just a year later another girl. of her own life. after that. did the same thing none of the three girls were able to live with the shame of forced marriage. and also from the capital bishkek has chosen to write a book on the subject of turkey's brides has called on his friend as he is to join him their views on wedding traditions have never been the same as he is has two grown up daughters who are to get married soon their father calls on them every evening before leaving he warned his daughters not to spend time outside the house after school the girls are to head straight home his greatest fear is that they may be kidnapped. there are some guys from the mountain. fifteen after all her age is not written down on her forehead and they have no idea she is only a schoolgirl so she is very likely to be kidnapped.